Cover page of 1550 print of Rosarium Philosophorum

Rosarium Philosophorum:
The Rose Garden of the Philosophers

Translated and introduced by James Yuan
with a foreword by Stanton Marlan

and dedicated to my friends and comrades at Res Futura,
especially N.D.R., qui me in ista arte non pauca docuit.

Front matter

  1. Copyright and author information

  2. Foreword by Stanton Marlan, PhD, Jungian Analyst

  3. Introduction and translator's note

Rosarium Philosophorum

  1. [Frontispiece and front matter]

  2. [Introductory exhortation]

  3. [Fountain]

  4. [King, Queen, and spirit]

  5. [Naked King and Queen]

  6. [Bath]

  7. Conjuction, or coupling

  8. Conception, or putrefaction

  9. Extraction of the soul, or impregnation

  10. Ablution, or cleansing

  11. Jubilation, or birth, or sublimation of the soul

  12. [Crowned hermaphrodite]

  13. Fermentation

  14. Illumination

  15. Nourishment

  16. Fixation

  17. Multiplication

  18. Revivification

  19. The display of perfection

  20. [Lion devouring the Sun]

  21. [Coronation of Mary and Resurrection of Christ]